DONATIONS RECEIVED
None (£77,500).
DONATIONS MADE
None. (£50,242)
[Bracketed amount indicates running total for the year.]
2022 FINAL SUMMARY
Total donations received: £77,500.
Total number of Donors: 2.
Total donations made: £50,242.
Total number of recipients: 2.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION TO COMPANIES HOUSE
Net Current Assets up to June 2022 (declared 16th March 2023): £90,657.
(Source)
END OF YEAR REPORT
Lets put these numbers in some context.
For a fourth year running, Labour Together received donations from only two declared sources, Martin Taylor and Trevor Chinn (find out more about them here).
In 2022, Taylor made a single donation of £23,000 to Labour Together (significantly less than the £218,500 he supplied in 2021). He made no further donations to either the Labour Party or any other political agent in 2022.
Similarly, Trevor Chinn donated £54,500 ( Down from £90,000 in 2021) to Labour Together. He gave Wes Streeting £7,500 and £5,000 to Oliver Coppard to fund his candidacy for Mayor of South Yorkshire. Chinn donated no money to the Labour Party itself this year.
For comparison, we randomly selected UNITE as representative of the average annual donations the big UK trade unions make to Labour, and their average membership numbers.
In 2022, UNITE are registered as donating £1.1M to the central Labour Party, constituency offices and individual politicians. The UNITE membership is over 1.2 million.
This means just these two wealthy donors have donated to Labour Together roughly 15% of what 1.2 million UNITE members contributed to the entire Labour cause.
Aside from this rotten burgh patronage, another interesting aspect of Labour Together activity is how the organisation has distributed these vast reserves.
From a total of £77,500 received, Labour Together made two donations in 2022. Rachel Reeves received £25,121 (we previously covered Reeves relationship with LT here). This is the same Rachel Reeves who once suggested that “a drop in Labour membership, which has reduced the party’s income, was a price worth paying for shedding unwelcome supporters”. The Labour Party received £25,121.
Labour Together declared net assets of £90,657 up to June 2022, up significantly from the £18,570 declared for 2021.
This is a neat illustration of the Labour Together Tendency’s priorities. Despite a massive financial shortfall for the Party, the focus for this faction is gaining financial security underwritten by millionaires, rather than a grassroots movement supported by actual members.
As a political project, they are more interested in gaining control of the Party for themselves, than gaining control of government for the rest of us.
Regarding personnel Joshua Simons has replaced Hannah O’Rourke as Secretary of Labour Together.
Simons is an experienced political operator and advisor. He is a Labour party candidate and former advisor to Rosena Allin Khan. He briefly served as a policy advisor to the Labour Leader’s office in 2016, but left after becoming “among the first whistle-blowers to sound the alarm over antisemitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party”.
Simons is also currently a trustee of Engage Britain, Civic Power Fund and New Economics Foundation. As a researcher he has been affiliated to organisations such as IPPR, New America and the Institute For the Future of Work.
As we have stated before, Labour Together are an unaccountable, unelected and opaque organisation. They are so dependent on the classic Tory funding model of a handful of millionaire donors to gain access to power, that any claims to political independence or genuine Socialist values are laughable.
The growing influence of Labour Together and their network means also a growing number of Socialist Labour members becoming “unwelcome supporters”.
As Gramsci said:
“How could men who mistrusted each other, who precisely at the moment of action saw that it was necessary to protect their backs from their own fellow-members, possibly remain together in the same party?”
Perhaps it’s time Labour Together, and their political sugar daddies are made to feel unwelcome?
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